Conflict Management and Leadership for Managers: Knowledge, Skills, and Processes to Harness the Power of Rapid Change

✍ Scribed by Susan Raines

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 495
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

All managers are conflict managers, and Conflict Management and Leadership for Managers, Third Edition coaches current and future organizational leaders with the knowledge and skills necessary to prevent and manage every common source of conflict faced at work. This text is divided into three sections: conflict management and collaboration basics, strategies for preventing conflicts inside your work teams and organizations, and processes and skills for enhancing relationships with external stakeholders. This comprehensive, all-in-one resource offers skill-based exercises, self-assessments for role understanding and goal-setting, and a variety of learner-friendly tools. Informed by decades of experience working with organizations of all types, sizes, missions, and cultures, Susan S. Raines demonstrates how effective and creative managers positively address conflict to enhance collaboration and mission achievement, thrive in rapidly changing environments, and craft a positive brand image for both one’s organization and their own career.

Updates to the Third Edition:

• Greatly expanded coverage of DEI-related conflict management woven into all sections for greater racial, ethnic, gender and sexuality, cultural, and religious sensitivity and situational specificity coverage.
• Greater coverage of the roles of social media and technology in increasing and decreasing conflict and suggested technological strategies to utilize and/or mitigate increasingly modernizing work communication methods and advancement challenges.
• More coverage of distributed hybrid workplace issues around team cohesion, employee motivation, and connectedness relevant to industry-wide environmental changes initiated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Increased coverage of informal conflict and dispute resolution that are more common and nuanced, providing more granular application of skills and strategies.
• Improved art program for visual learners.
• Updated relevant court rulings and federal policies to stay in step with current legal best-practice.

✦ Table of Contents

Brief Contents
Contents
Boxes, Figures, and Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction to the Third Edition
PART I. BASIC CONFLICT MANAGEMENT KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
1. Manager Know Thyself: The Traits and Behaviors of Great Conflict Managers
2. Theory to Practice: The Root Causes and Cures of Conflict
3. The Power of Negotiation: Essential Concepts and Skills
4. The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Continuum
5. Managing across Cultures and Generations: Deeper Understanding for Maximal Performance
PART II. THE PREVENTION AND RESOLUTION OF INTERNAL ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS
6. Building Healthy Organizational Cultures: The Foundation of Success
7. Interpersonal Dispute Resolution at Work: Enhancing Employee Engagement and Teamwork
8. Leadership amid Chaotic Change: New Tools for a Transformed World
9. Dispute System Design and Working with Unions
10. The Ombudsman at Work: Coaching, Facilitating, Training, and Shaping Organizations
PART III. THE PREVENTION AND RESOLUTION OF EXTERNAL ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS
11. Principles and Systems for Superior Customer Service and Customer Recapture
12. Public Policy Decision-Making and Collaboration with Regulators
13. Facilitating Meetings and Large-Group Decision-Making Processes
Glossary of Key Terms
References
Index
About the Author